Ryan and Tatum O'Neal pitch potentially creepy reality series

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It’s never been easy going for father-daughter acting duo Ryan and Tatum O’Neal. They’ve spent the bulk of the last three decades estranged. And now that they’re looking to put the past behind them, they’d naturally prefer to do so on camera.

Variety reports producers at Endemol USA are pitching reality soap “Lost and Found.” The series will follow the family as they move back under the same roof and attend therapy together, looking for answers to how it all went wrong.

Sounds like a far cry from the O’Neals of the summer of 2009. Ryan admits to not even recognizing Tatum when he saw her at Farrah Fawcett’s funeral:

“I had just put the casket in the hearse and I was watching it drive
away when a beautiful blond woman comes up and embraces me,” he told Vanity Fair. “I said to her, ‘You have a drink on you? You have a
car?’ She said, ‘Daddy, it’s me –Tatum!’ I was just trying to be funny
with a strange Swedish woman, and it’s my daughter. It’s so sick.”

Yeah, pretty sick, but apparently enough of a catalyst for them to try to patch things up. Since Fawcett’s death, they’ve frequently been spotted out and about. And now, in anticipation of a series order, Tatum has already moved into her father’s Malibu home.

“Of course they’ve had their share of trials and tribulations
that have been very public,” Endemol chairman David
Goldberg tells Variety, “but ultimately this comes down to a
father-daughter story that viewers will be able to relate to on many
different levels.”